WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:13.840 This is Hacker Public Radio Episode 3,915 for Friday 4 August 2023. 00:13.840 --> 00:18.840 Today's show is entitled, While The Hell is My Audio Clipping. 00:18.840 --> 00:23.680 It is hosted by Mr. X, and is about 13 minutes long. 00:23.680 --> 00:26.480 It carries an explicit flag. 00:26.480 --> 00:40.560 The summary is, Mr. X has audio that is clipping but will he be able to fix it. 00:40.560 --> 00:45.800 You are listening to a show from the Reserve Q. We are airing it now because we had 00:45.800 --> 00:48.800 free slots that were not filled. 00:48.800 --> 00:54.640 This is a community project that needs listeners to contribute shows in order to survive. 00:54.640 --> 01:24.160 Please consider recording a show for Hacker Public Radio. 01:24.320 --> 01:30.640 Hello and welcome Hacker Public Radio. My name is Mr. X and welcome to this podcast. 01:30.640 --> 01:35.760 As usual, I would like to start by thanking the people of HPR for making this podcast 01:35.760 --> 01:37.600 available to us all. 01:37.600 --> 01:44.400 HPR is a community led podcast provided by the community for the community. That means you can 01:44.400 --> 01:51.200 contribute to. If everybody loses this podcast, send them just one show a year then we have more 01:51.280 --> 01:57.280 shows than we know what to do with. If I can do it, you can. It is great fun. 01:57.280 --> 02:14.000 This show, for us that, that is my tip at adding effects. I am going to take it to the 02:14.080 --> 02:23.200 ad effects and properly. This is an emergency show. HPR is short on shows and so if you could send one 02:23.200 --> 02:32.480 and just one a year we would have plenty. Anyway, this episode is history put together and it's 02:32.480 --> 02:40.240 really more for myself rather than for the listeners but you are obviously more than happy 02:40.240 --> 02:45.760 to listen to if you want and maybe we will be entertaining. I don't know. I think I was 02:45.760 --> 02:51.440 talking about a couple last two or three episodes of noticed where my audio has been clipping. 02:52.560 --> 02:58.560 Actually, as I am recording this and when I was doing some of these noises for example, I 02:58.560 --> 03:02.160 did notice a bit of clipping but there is no clipping happening at the moment. I am using a 03:02.160 --> 03:14.400 audacity and I usually do and the last two issues I noticed were clipping. I normally add an 03:14.400 --> 03:20.960 intro sound, an intro track for a few seconds and that was clipping. Now I am going to be clipping 03:20.960 --> 03:26.640 it actually I noticed there. Anyway, the point was that when I listened to back to the 03:27.600 --> 03:34.480 alarm list and back to preview an MP3 format and it sounded fine and I went back and listened to 03:34.480 --> 03:40.160 the flag files which I sent to HPR. I mentioned the list a day ago when I was running a chat 03:43.600 --> 03:52.880 and we mean they were both having a chat and there was no distortion or clipping that I could hear 03:53.440 --> 04:03.200 what I normally do is record audio and then I'll add some audio compression to the 04:03.200 --> 04:16.480 speech part of the audio and then leave it that. So what I am planning to do is I am going to read a little 04:16.480 --> 04:29.440 bit out from the HPR site and then add a little bit of attenuation each time and see how much I 04:29.440 --> 04:42.240 need to ensure that there is no clipping. So I have just opened a browser and that is just a step 04:42.720 --> 04:47.680 when it was just a secure tool. This was hastily put together so if I google for a 04:53.680 --> 05:06.000 public video, I have a public video and I am going to go to give shows because that is what I am looking 05:06.000 --> 05:17.600 for, give shows and so what is it say? So I wonder what is what it is but I will decide to read 05:18.640 --> 05:23.760 now there is a section, stuff you need to know that is one, two, is like the topic, three 05:23.760 --> 05:32.480 record your show, four up with your show, questions, still nervous, our motto is important, 05:32.560 --> 05:39.200 our motto is any audio is better than no audio, so don't try to be perfectionist, just send 05:39.200 --> 05:43.920 something then, any topic of interest to hackers, what is just about anything really, 05:45.920 --> 05:51.520 it ain't a show unless it is on the server so no point crank procrastinating in 05:52.240 --> 05:58.480 how do you plan to that, as I am doing right now, if you tell us you are doing a show then you 05:58.480 --> 06:05.680 will ask a show, you don't need anyone's permission to upload a show but if you have any questions 06:05.680 --> 06:15.440 then drop into the hash, aug, cast, planet, channel on free node and chat with a live person 06:15.440 --> 06:23.760 24-7, so I am going to just go to the state from this page, give a show, 06:23.840 --> 06:30.960 and I am going to go to the where is it now, blah, blah, blah, I will look for the calendar page, 06:30.960 --> 06:41.200 it is number four upload your show, giving shows, what is in there, why, here we go upload your show, 06:41.200 --> 06:46.560 the hash, the hash schedule is entirely community driven and we recommend that you decide 06:46.560 --> 06:52.640 when your show will be released, there are only three days to wait until next free slot, 06:53.280 --> 07:04.640 please consider recording a show, yeah, so if I review that I did stuff you need to know page, 07:04.640 --> 07:11.280 I may be not up to date with what the least things are, stuff you need to know, 07:14.800 --> 07:21.840 I am thinking of a paragraph which is not too, I am not sure what you want to read because 07:21.840 --> 07:29.200 this isn't really good, it is solved my problem with the audio clipping, headlines anyway, 07:29.200 --> 07:33.600 just referring to say for my financial interest, it is enough you need to know, you will no longer 07:33.600 --> 07:39.920 be allowed to edit each paragraph pages from Wikipedia, any positive decisions are made by each 07:39.920 --> 07:45.760 per community, each paragraph stop as a project if there are not enough shows, important, 07:45.840 --> 07:53.840 pay attention, support our patrons, we do not syndicate non-HPR shows, you are agreeing to 07:53.840 --> 08:00.320 license your show CC by SA, if you are interested to read your show and its entirety, 08:00.960 --> 08:06.000 the audio feel show will not be moderately, your show will be signaled as containing 08:06.800 --> 08:14.000 explicit content if it does, you determine when your show will be released, all the reservations 08:14.000 --> 08:22.720 need to be approved, we use UTF8 and to end keep accessibility in mind, your show will be heard 08:22.720 --> 08:28.800 by an international audience, I think about that, that would be no lie, yeah, year then month and 08:28.800 --> 08:37.600 date, feed the reserve queue, the reserve queue is intended only to be used in the cases 08:37.600 --> 08:45.280 whether still a gap in the schedule, 24 hours a part to release, this was known as emergency 08:45.280 --> 08:53.200 queue but now can also be used when the host don't care when the shows are scheduled, they will 08:53.200 --> 09:00.080 be used on a first come first go basis, when there is no conflict with the schedule guidelines, 09:00.400 --> 09:13.360 I think personal, these guidelines are always going to forget, I try to understand more 09:13.360 --> 09:19.840 of one show so I better not do it two in the same week so I think I leave a gap, I think it's actually 09:19.840 --> 09:23.760 two weeks, another member of the two or three weeks, how many weeks is it supposed to leave a gap for 09:24.320 --> 09:30.160 and me personally, if you could put it into the reserve show and it deals with automatically 09:30.160 --> 09:37.440 then that's great, I don't really care when the show is going and the schedule guidelines 09:38.880 --> 09:44.960 you must have your audio recorded ready to upload before you pick a slot, always try and 09:44.960 --> 09:50.960 fill in free slots that are available in the upcoming two weeks, if the queue is filling up 09:50.960 --> 09:57.520 then please consider leaving your slots free for new contributors, if you have a non-agent show 09:57.520 --> 10:02.800 then find an event empty week and schedule it then, if you're uploading a series of shows 10:03.440 --> 10:12.640 consider scheduling one every two weeks, interviews will be released sooner, so there you go 10:15.280 --> 10:20.080 recording a podcast on this page you will find information on how to record a podcast 10:21.920 --> 10:27.680 golden roll is any audio is better than no audio, so keep that in mind, it can record a 10:27.680 --> 10:34.080 portable media player record with a better thing on your computer, yeah and so on and so forth yeah 10:34.080 --> 10:43.440 blah blah blah blah, um export the flag is set to level to 8 by set bit depth to 24, 10:43.440 --> 10:52.320 yeah, according into the phone, according around people discussions avoid bidding back to 10:52.320 --> 11:00.880 in music, we mix down to mono, no need to admit it to the file, there's a big chunk of it picking 11:00.880 --> 11:08.000 a slot for your show, as I say from up in the view it's just keep it simple, I'm happy for it 11:08.000 --> 11:14.480 for each be added to choose the slot and the only guidelines, you know, I'm not just going to 11:16.240 --> 11:22.000 give you a slightly lighter for picking a not quite full in the guidelines, I'm sure 11:22.000 --> 11:29.040 of not done that in all occasions, so yeah, I think that how much I would do is after 11:29.040 --> 11:35.440 recording so far, let's see, a little bit 10 minutes, that's more than enough, I'll probably put 11:35.440 --> 11:51.120 10 tones in between each section, so that I know how much attenuation I need to add in before 11:51.200 --> 12:01.040 distortion, before the distortion is gone, see how that goes, yeah, I don't know if HPRs changed 12:01.040 --> 12:08.000 the audio leveling script, I think, or whatever, it's buying the scenes, but I'm definitely 12:08.720 --> 12:17.680 hearing clipping, that I didn't hear in the original show, see that something we had to do with the 12:17.760 --> 12:23.680 new version of that adastate, but I'm determined to get to the bottom of it anyway, and with that 12:23.680 --> 12:28.080 I think that's enough for what all those are clipping there, maybe I do need to turn my 12:28.800 --> 12:33.680 mic levels down about actually, you know, that's funny, I'm just noticing the mic levels 12:34.800 --> 12:39.360 look quite hot, is that adjustable, I don't know if that's or not of it's picked to the top, 12:39.360 --> 12:46.480 but I don't know if I'm using an old version I've been to and I don't know if the recording 12:46.560 --> 12:51.920 levels actually work on this foil and I'm not going to use the mixer that comes at the 12:51.920 --> 12:56.160 bone too, so I'm just telling the stone you've been to see if it makes a difference, oh no, it's 12:56.160 --> 13:00.080 it's not adjustable, so I need to go into the settings to do that, I'm talking to myself here, 13:02.960 --> 13:12.320 maybe I do need to reduce the the levels a little bit on my mic here, but what I can't 13:12.400 --> 13:20.160 understand as I said, I didn't hear that when I was playing it back, so who knows whether it's 13:20.160 --> 13:25.360 me, HPR, combination of both, I don't know, but hopefully let's get to the bottom of it, 13:26.400 --> 13:32.160 so if anyone's got any questions about any of this, but let's listen to it, feel free to drop my 13:32.160 --> 13:46.720 line, I can be contacted at msrex, at hpr, googlemail.com, as mrex, it's hpr, the at symbol googlemail.com, 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